agreements

plural of agreement

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of agreements The company had $36 billion in off-balance-sheet AI cloud agreements, or backstops, for neoclouds, according to its last quarterly financial filing in July. — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2026 Advances in satellite imagery, remote sensors, and data analytics can increase transparency and make compliance with arms control agreements more observable. — Pedro Sánchez, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2026 Conference agreements are often nonbinding, and past hosts have been criticized for failing to follow through on promises. — Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026 Maxim says that funding for Indigenous communities is a federal obligation based on treaties and other agreements with tribes and should be standard and irrevocable. — ABC News, 12 Nov. 2026 Although there are some spending guidelines within the settlement agreements, there is considerable flexibility, a vacuum of leadership and oversight, and significant gaps in how the public can track the dollars. — Aneri Pattani, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026 Scully told the council that the city could also consider a cannabis-specific tax in the future, but the initial program would rely on development agreements to establish financial contributions. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2026 While the part of the agreement about minerals was separated from the global health agreement after the public outcry in Zambia, many of the global health agreements do require the recipient country to share data such as pathogen information. — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026 The fund plans to acquire stakes in audiovisual companies and provide financing for individual productions, including participatory loans tied to presales, distribution agreements and tax incentives, as well as gap financing. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agreements
Noun
  • With cultural consensuses in disrepair and taste informed by an ever evolving spate of social media and streaming platforms, mainstream music trends were almost reliably fractious.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Washington has supplemented these multilateral initiatives with bilateral defense production agreements, including pacts with Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan to partner on critical defense systems, missile production, and shipbuilding.
    — Sam Mullins, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Under the co-exclusive pacts, all five seasons of Orphan Black are now available to stream on HBO Max and Peacock.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The singers’ buchi drone formed the core of the music’s harmonic language, which relied mostly on unisons, major seconds, and minor thirds.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • According to FairVote's analysis of the 2024 election, 94 percent of in-person presidential campaign events between the party conventions and Election Day occurred in seven battleground states.
    — Anna Rahmanan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The agents developed their own conventions for assigning ownership, placing work on hold and vetoing actions, although coordination sometimes broke down into conflicts.
    — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Flock has become a controversy in Michigan, with several communities in Oakland County choosing not to renew contracts, including Milford and Madison Heights.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • There’s no doubt that there are wasteful contracts and bloated salaries to be cut, but not even the strictest economizing could absorb that much without serious danger to public health and safety.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Advertisement Beneath their cultural differences, AI safety and cybersecurity have competing understandings of what AI is.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
  • China and the United States would be well advised to seek similar understandings to limit the AI arms race.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Agreements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agreements. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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